Korchnoi Viktor Quotes

#1. I don't study; I create.

Viktor Korchnoi

#2. That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

Cecelia Ahern

#3. I genuinely love you all and the fact that some of you are not feeling so great at the moment really really upsets me.

Troye Sivan

#4. Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot ...

Farid Al-Din Attar

#5. Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

Viktor Korchnoi

#6. close to midnight. I don't want to ask

Nora Roberts

#7. The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

Viktor Korchnoi

#8. It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

Viktor Korchnoi

#9. Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.

Viktor Korchnoi

#10. You aren't intending to spend your married life quarreling, I hope?" Claude said, frowning as his brother passed a hand nervously through his hair and turned to the door. "I intend to be happy," Lord Francis said. "I shall see to it that I quarrel with Soph every day of our lives, Claude.

Mary Balogh

#11. Sure you do. Everyone wants to play. They're just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what's stupid? Not trying. So just ... try.

Victoria Scott

#12. I don't care about the facts, Domino, I care about how I feel. How I feel will change, I want to remember that.

Jeanette Winterson

#13. I constantly signal to the Iraqi leaders that our patience, or the patience of the American people, is running out

Zalmay Khalilzad

#14. All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.

Viktor Korchnoi

#15. Life's too short to try and understand cold-blooded creatures.

Rita Mae Brown

#16. No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

Viktor Korchnoi

#17. Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

Viktor Korchnoi

#18. The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

Viktor Korchnoi

#19. As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.

Viktor Korchnoi

#20. A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

Richard M. Nixon

#21. [Harry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma.

Viktor Korchnoi

#22. The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

Viktor Korchnoi

#23. Many of the books on my list are, in my opinion, amazing. Some I didn't like. But I give them all five stars, because stars make people - including me
happy.

Rebecca Stead

#24. Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

Viktor Korchnoi

#25. Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement's focus.

Charles B. Rangel

#26. It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in view of the large number of mistakes, are not fit for publication!

Viktor Korchnoi

#27. Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can't get a diagnosis for.

Mary Roach

#28. What life really is all about is happiness. It's not money, or stature, or the amount of cars you have in your driveway. Life, a really successful life, is one in which you are loved and love somebody else, or some other people.

Steve Guttenberg

#29. Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

Viktor Korchnoi

#30. The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was wearing these glasses, all he could admire was his own reflection.

Viktor Korchnoi